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From: x35147d3@usma8.usma.edu (Bergman Charles CDT)
Newsgroups: sci.military
Subject: Re: Carrier Ops in Gulf
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Date: 4 Apr 91 04:26:45 GMT
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From: x35147d3@usma8.usma.edu (Bergman Charles CDT)

In reply to the listing about the A-6E being unable to use smart
munitions--that is wrong.

The Intruder is probably one of the best attack aircraft in the world and can
carry almost all U.S. Air to surface bombs and missiles including LGBs and even
Tomahawk ALCMs (which are definitely consider a smart munition).  It doesn't
surprise me that CBS (Communist Broadcasting Service) said this.

I have heard from unofficial sources that the Air Force monopolized the stocks
of U.S. LGBs and they let the Marines and Navy have very little.  It boggles me
that the F-117 was "so great."  Almost all tactical aircraft in the U.S.
inventory can drop LGBs and many of them, with attached laser designating pods,
can deliver these bombs on there own - just like the F-117.  I guess the Air
Force figured they had to prove the need for the costly stealth fighter.
The F-111 is very good with LGBs (remember Libya) and can fly farther and drop
more!  Even in Vietnam the same type LGBs used in Iraq were used towards the
end of the War from aircraft like F-4Es.

Phantoms Phorever!

Charles K. Bergman
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